
Alex F. Gilvarry, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor
Graduate Faculty
Graduate Program Director for the M.F.A. in Creative Writing
- Department
- English
- Office
- The Great Hall Annex 411
- Phone
- 732-571-7548
- agilvarr@monmouth.edu
- Office Hours
- Virtual office hours, Tuesday and Thursday, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m; and by appointment.
Alex F. Gilvarry, M.F.A.
Alex Gilvarry was born in Staten Island, New York. He is the author of From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, winner of the Hornblower Award for First Fiction (New York Society Library), Best New Voice 2012 by Bookspan, and selected by the New York Times as an Editor’s Choice. He was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 nominee in 2014 and has received fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center and the Normal Mailer Center. His second novel, Eastman Was Here, published in 2017, was nominated for the PEN Open Book Award and chosen as one of the best books of the year by Esquire magazine. His essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Boston Globe, Lithub, and have been broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered.
Education
M.F.A., Hunter College
B.A., Hunter College
Publications
Books


Multimedia
Courses
Frequently Taught Classes
- Advanced Creative Writing (EN 451)
- Craft of Writing (EN 352)
- Creative Writing: Fiction (EN 252)
- Creative Writing: Introduction (EN 251)
- Literature II: Neoclassical to the Present (EN 202)
- Manuscript Seminar (EN 644)
- Seminar in Creative Writing: Fiction (EN 611)
- Seminar in Creative Writing: Writer's Craft (EN 615)
Recently Taught Classes
2021 Fall
2021 Spring
- EN-352-01 - Craft of Writing
- EN-644-GIL3 - Manuscript Seminar
- EN-655B-GI3GR - Mfa Creative Thesis Seminar II
- EN-615-50 - Seminar in Creative Writing: Writer's Craft
2020 Fall
- EN-451-50 - Advanced Creative Writing
- EN-644-GIL3G - Manuscript Seminar
- EN-655A-GI3GR - Mfa Creative Thesis Seminar
- EN-674-GIL3 - Professional Research With Service Learning
- EN-611-01 - Seminar in Creative Writing: Fiction
2020 Spring
- EN-352-50 - Craft of Writing
- EN-251-02 - Creative Writing: Introduction
- EN-644-GIL3G - Manuscript Seminar
- EN-615-50 - Seminar in Creative Writing: Writer's Craft
2019 Fall
- EN-451-50 - Advanced Creative Writing
- EN-252-50 - Creative Writing: Fiction
- EN-223-01 - The Campus Novel
- HO-496-GIL2 - Thesis Writing